Fabrication of SiO2/TiO2double-shelled hollow nanospheres with controllable size via sol-gel reaction and sonication-mediated etching

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15420-15426

  Lee, Jungsup ^a   Hwang, Sun Hye ^a   Yun, Juyoung ^a   Jang, Jyongsik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

double shell hollow nanoparticles; dye sensitized solar cell; light scattering; porous nanoparticle; sol gel method

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FABRICATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; POROSITY; SILICA; SILICON; SIO2 NANOPARTICLES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

BRUNAUER EMMETT TELLER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLABLE SIZE; HOLLOW NANOPARTICLES; HOLLOW NANOSPHERES; HOLLOW STRUCTURE; POROUS NANOPARTICLES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SIZE-CONTROLLABLE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907835066     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503957f     Document Type: Article

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